Luke Donald will not thank us for reminding him, but the one thing still
missing from the increasingly impressive CV of the world No 1 is a major
championship.

But on the evidence of his play at the Disney Resort at Lake Buena Vista
yesterday, and the rest of an outstanding season in which he rarely finished
outside the top ten, it is surely just a matter of time before the
Englishman lifts one of the game’s most highly coveted trophies. Next
season? Why not.

At 33 and awaiting the imminent arrival of his second child, Donald is
beginning to